SEATTLE — Is it safe for the LGBTQ community in Capitol Hill? That was the question discussed at a forum on hate crimes Tuesday night. Community and city leaders say something needs to be done to stop an alarming trend.

Doug Hamilton has lived in Capitol Hill for more 20 years. He’d always felt it was a safe neighborhood until one night in July 2013.

“This guy bursts out of that door over there and just started taunting us. He said, ‘Are you gay, are you bisexual, are you queer?’”

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Doug says at first that he and his friends were in shock.

“We thought maybe we can reason with him, which was a huge mistake. You just can’t reason with the irrational.”

The taunting escalated and the man punched Doug, knocking him to the ground.

“I got a massive concussion, I was in bed for three weeks recovering.”

Doug’s not the only person targeted by hate in Capitol Hill.

“I felt like I got slapped in the face,” says Michael Kidd, who had an incident with a cab driver this weekend. “Basically he called me something vulgar and derogatory, very homophobic.”

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Joe

Yep that’s why all the Illegal aliens are pouring across the border by the millions, they’re afraid of America’s bigotry, they view America in the worst possible way, not tolerant and loving like the Middle East.

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Ralph

Capitol Hill attracts weirdos of all kinds. There are a lot of mentally ill street people using booze and drugs. Sometimes it looks like the Walking Dead TV show. A percentage are pathetic bigots that hate their own miserable lives.